Michigan-CDC study supports value of social restrictions during influenza pandemics
...4 primary and secondary sources that included U.S. census data, municipal records, newspapers and handbills covering a 24-week period Sept. 8, 1918 through Feb. 22, 1919 the researchers identified which NPIs were used in each city and when officials turned them on and off. Using both actual death rates...Rising skin cancer rates are more likely to affect wealthy people, says 12-year review
...ve in Northern Ireland have fair skin and the 2001 census revealed that less than one per cent of the population belongs to a black or minority ethnic group adds co-author Dr Olivia Dolan, consultant dermatologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital. This means that our results are less likely to be affected b...NIH study tracks brain development in some 500 children across US
... the demographics of the U.S. population, based on census data from 2000. Finally, they used questionnaires to exclude children who had any signs or known risk of serious neurological or psychiatric disorders. Recruitment and screening were handled by a Clinical Coordinating Center at Washington Universi...Smoking, growing private hospital care for poor and US flu vaccine policies
...of segregation to birth certificates and 2000 U.S. census data in a sample of more than 400,000 African American women in 216 U.S. metro areas. "Associations between Residential Segregation and Smoking during Pregnancy among Urban African-American Women," Janice F. Bell, et al Private Urban Hospitals ...USC study identifies factors attributed to later stage cancer diagnosis
...ve medicine of the Keck School of Medicine. "Using census tract, we wanted to see if where someone lived posed any risks for later stage diagnosis in addition to personal risk factors." The study cites two general types of personal risk factors that correlate to later detection. Socio-ecological and cultu...Still some way to go in tackling racism in mental health care
...fered and delivered effectively. The Count me in census and other research indicate that institutional discrimination does occur and that services have some way to go before the challenges of our multicultural society, they write. "If the concept of institutional racism had been more widely accepted and a...Binghamton University researcher to study declining US fertility rates
... decline using multi-level empirical models. "The census is quite rich," he said. "I am employing a method ...hold-level data that's available in the population census and with county-level data available in the agriculture and manufacturing censuses. There's a split...Nonprofit hospitals, more nurses and greater availability of technology equal better patient care
... of nurse staffing levels by the average inpatient census at each hospital. "Nurses, as the primary caregivers for hospitalized patients, provide a crucial link between doctors and patients," says Landon. "Our study supports the importance of adequate nursing care to the quality of treatment patients recei......accusations justified? In 2005, the "Count me in" census for England and Wales showed higher rates of admission for mental illness and more adverse pathways to care for some black and minority ethnic groups and led to accusations of institutional racism within psychiatry. Several reports and inquiries have...South Asian men suffer more urinary problems than white men but are less likely to seek help
... lower at 39 per cent - comparisons with the 2001 census showed that the respondents were representative of the age, socio-economic status and health profile of the area. More than a third of the 409 South Asian men who replied (37 per cent), described at least one significant urinary problem, compared...Study links lead exposure to brain cancer in adults
...stimates for lead exposure and brain cancer from a census sample of 317,968 people who reported their occupations between 1979 and 1981. Van Wijngaarden was looking for evidence of an exposure-response trend, or a rise in cancer incidence or mortality associated with an exposure to a toxic substance. The go...Valve disease study suggests new public health concern, say Mayo Clinic researchers
...nd gender distribution of the 2000 U.S. population census is 2.5 percent of adults or approximately 5 millio... In Olmsted County, 1.8 percent (adjusted to U.S. census figures) of the adults were diagnosed with valve disease and prevalence also increased with age, fro...Strokes will cost US $2.2 trillion by 2050 if prevention & treatment don't improve
...SS study. Those data were combined with national census data and population projections and average stroke-care costs. Lost wages for the 47 percent of under-65 stroke survivors who don't return to work were included, but lost productivity for the 53 percent who do return to work were not. "Because mem...Never marrieds run highest risk of early death
The findings are based on national census and death certification data, involving almost 67,000 adults in the USA between 1989 and 1997. In 1989, almost one in two of the sample were married, and almost one in 10 were widowed. Around 12% were divorced and 3% were separated. Of the remainde...Elders suffer disproportionately during heat waves, other disasters
...lem. His research offers such suggestions as using census data to identify locations of vulnerable people and utilizing social support networks to assist in evacuations. ...Poorest children face highest risk of death from injury
...aths per 100,000 children per year around the 1981 census to 4 deaths per 100,000 children per year around the 2001 census. But socio-economic inequalities remain: the death rate for children of parents classified as never worked or long-term unemployed (social class 8) was 13 times that for children of p...Child safety seats reduce risk of death in crashes more than seat belts alone
...ation Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), a census of car crashes in which one or more persons died. Using only FARS data for these evaluations, however, can be problematic, because these data assume that surviving children in fatal crashes were secured similarly to those of children in other, non-f...BU Health Policy Institute receives grant to study complex patient care, staffing, and cost issues
...ch of the four hospitals. Although variability in census and nurse-to-patient ratios also affects other typ...The extent to which variations in hospital patient census produce variations in the number of patients cared for by individual nurses; Whether variations i...Sociologists find low self-esteem at 11 predicts drug dependency at 20
... began. The study sample was randomly drawn from a census of students in the Miami-Dade County school system. Data were first gathered when the participants were in either sixth or seventh grade; the subjects were then interviewed three more times over a nine-year period with the final follow-up when most w...Weekly religious attendance nearly as effective as statins and exercise in extending life
...rance data for the average yearly cost of statins, census data for the average annual household contribution to religious institutions, and the cost of a modest gym membership for exercise,. This lifetime cost was then divided by the additional years of life attributable to each behavior. Each year of life ...